Faerie Tale

Faerie Tale is a supernatural thriller, falling within the subgenre of contemporary fantasy, by Raymond E. Feist, first published in 1988. It was translated and published in Dutch as Een Boosaardig Sprookje in 1989. The story was reviewed in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and the subject of a Masters Thesis. Professor Jack Zipes at the University of Minnesota, who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales, wrote "This message is at the heart of a recent bestseller entitled simply Faerie Tale by Raymond E. Feist. The plot concerns a successful screenwriter by the name of of Phil Hasting, who moves into a huge house in rural upstate New York with his wife and three children." ... "Feist's novel contains long-winded expositions about magic, Celtic tradition, and fairies and has a secondary plot concerned with Hastings teenage princess daughter, a rich heiress, who falls in love with an all-American graduate student writing his dissertation on a topic related to the occult and magic".Romance novel author Shona Husk wrote "However the scary book that has really stayed with me is Faerie Tale by Raymond E. Feist which I also read as a teenager. Some of the images stayed with me for years. I reread it as an adult not that long ago and it is still really creepy."